I'm just hearing in my ear that to qualify for the Special Olympics you don't actually need a physical disability. Learning disabilities are enough to get you in. There's scope (excuse the pun) here for England to redeem themselves. I'm not sure if I'd play Joe Cole on the left or in the middle in a kind of diamond formation for Lamps and Gerrard, but either way the current national side may not be able to qualify for Euro 2008, but a Bronze medal in the Special Olympics must surely be within their compass particularly when you consider the German side has a left winger with one leg and the Spanish teams' centre-backs are Siamese twins. Come on England, do us proud!***
Speaking of mongers, have a look at this:
Is it me or is this not just a little bit patronising? I may have missed something but Autism is surely a mental disability rather than a physical one no? If this kid can shoot six three-pointers in a couple of minutes it does rather beg the question, why the fuck was he not in the side on a regular basis?
This is not one of those god awful Chicken Soup for the Soul stories about some physical mongaloid who dribbles who gets to play baseball with the normal kids and they let him hit the winning home run and his parents weep as the team cheers and carries him shoulder high back to the special kids' bus; that's patronising enough, but the dude in this film actually can play and he appears to be articulate and has a complete knowledge of the tactics and rules of the game, so really the only reason he hasn't played would appear to be ignorance of his condition and what he's capable of. Throwing him a bone by letting him play doesn't really reflect well on those people. I think. It's early, but I think I'm right.
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Continuing with the monger theme. What a pathetic sorry image this is. Poor ickle Steve with his brolly trying to keep his half barnet from getting wet.
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